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- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 9 hours ago:
It’s essentially a hero shooter. You shoot. It has heroes. I don’t know what else you want.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 20 hours ago:
If you set the server config to limit one player per class, and set the max team size to like 8, you basically have a hero shooter. That’s not an unusual config- some servers were just like that for years.
What’s missing ? “Each class has two powers” is an extremely specific metric I don’t think is a requirement for hero shooters, and even if it was you have the unique grenades on top of the more obvious “he can build a sentry, he can turn invisible”.
You could maybe argue there aren’t enough classes, but I don’t buy that. As long as you have enough for everyone on the team to play something different, you’re good. The characters in TF2 certainly have personality.
I knew someone who got really upset when I compared overwatch to TF2, but I think it was because they were emotionally invested in overwatch and felt bad when I was like “it’s kind of like this much older game I like more”. Saying the thing they love is kind of a knockoff made them feel bad.
Anyway. To your point. I wouldn’t call tf2 a hero shooter first. It’s not the best representation of the genre, probably. But to my point, I still stand by overwatch added very little on top of TF2. Most of Blizzard’s changes were changes in minor detail. It’s basically "more classes, fewer game modes, you can’t run your own server, and we’re going to try to sell you micro transactions "
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 1 day ago:
I stand by my assessment that overwatch is essentially team fortress 2 with a limit of one player per class and fewer game modes.
I don’t know the name of the trope, but it’s like when a cover gets more popular than the original. Except the person doing the cover (blizzard) is a huge scumbag.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 1 day ago:
Isn’t an overwatch style hero shooter just team fortress 2? Now get off my lawn, I have clouds to tell at.
- Comment on Fallout inspired RPG game in EXCEL 5 days ago:
It was ublock origin on Windows desktop Firefox. Though it didn’t play the ad when I clicked it on my Android Firefox just now.
- Comment on Fallout inspired RPG game in EXCEL 5 days ago:
Battles use a simplified version of DnD mechanics lol y tho
Don’t have excel to test it and youtube seems to have defeated my adblocker, so I didn’t actually watch it. Neat idea for a toy, though.
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 6 days ago:
As someone else said, bandcamp is pretty good. Their articles are, so far as I can tell, written by actual people and thus have more soul to them. I’m sure some asshole is plotting to replace them with LLM, but until then!
Also, go to shows. Go see live music. Usually folks have opening acts. Sometimes you can even make friends.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
“Making a better choice” doesn’t “make you a better person”, necessarily.
And also like I said in my post, just accept that you’re not always going to be a perfect person. None of us are. You don’t have to get mad at anyone else for that.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
No, people don’t dislike vegans or vegetarians because of their choices, they dislike them because they lord their, what they think “better” choice over others.
I’m not sure we agree on what “lording over” is. Like if someone says “Sorry, I can’t eat that, I’m vegan” is that lording it over you? Pretty much every vegan I’ve encountered has been polite, and at about the level of someone with a food allergy. Sometimes they check the ingredients label.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
If you accept that there are moral/ethical problems with eating meat (contribution to climate change, health concerns, animals being killed and eaten, whatever), and choose to eat meat anyway, and encounter a vegan, what has to happen?
You can accept that they are making a better choice, but then you have to accept that you’re making a worse choice. Most people are cowards and protect the ego at any cost. Rather than shrugging and saying “yeah, i should eat less meat. Good for you taking the high road”, which requires accepting that you’re not being the best, you can instead grab onto any reasons why no it’s really them that sucks. That’s easier, more comfortable, and doesn’t require any painful introspection or changes.
It’s the same mechanism when people get mad at cyclists, pedestrians, people who go to the gym, people who don’t shop at Walmart, whatever. They’re doing something that makes you feel bad in comparison. Most people are terrible at that and will lash out instead of doing anything productive.
Alternatively, or maybe additionally, people are really tribal, and once they adopt the idea that vegans (or cyclists, or people driving small cars, or people wearing sandals, whatever) are in the outgroup, then they enjoy being hostile to them.
People are ego driven emotional morons. All of us. Me, too. It’s terrible.
- Comment on After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream 3 weeks ago:
I think I played maple story in like 2007 and it was garbage then. My excuse at the time was I was broke, and there weren’t many good free games out. Path of Exile wasn’t until 2013. Same with Warframe. Huh I never realized those came out the same year.
- Comment on Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.) 4 weeks ago:
I mostly listen to music on Bandcamp, where so far as I know nothing has been censored. Except maybe la femme’s last album cover.
I prefer buying music over renting it, but I understand it’s not for everyone.
- Comment on whatever 5 weeks ago:
Is this store brand far side?
- Comment on I'm working on it, ok? 1 month ago:
Yeah, generally agreed.
I think more people should actually track what they’re spending, though. Sometimes what feels like “just $20 every once in a while” isn’t. A coworker of mine realized he was spending a lot more than he thought on fun food and drink when he actually added it up and put it in a spreadsheet.
Not saying that’s you! But actually checking your spending in detail every once in a while I think is a good idea for everyone.
- Comment on How do you keep your homes clean? 1 month ago:
The cleaning person seems to take as long as it takes. The first time someone from there came, she was here for like 8 hours. Now that they come monthly it doesn’t need as much work.
I used to use another service but they weren’t great. More expensive, less cleaning, missed appointments, gig work nonsense.
- Comment on How do you keep your homes clean? 1 month ago:
I pay someone to clean once a month. I hate cleaning and it’s worth the $200 to me.
I keep my sink clear of dishes and take out my own trash, but the rest is just stuff I don’t want to do.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Orbital Update brings full ship customisation and a complete space station overhaul 1 month ago:
Yeah once I had a fleet and some bases mining resources for a ton of money , and a ship I liked, I kind of lost interest.
It’s a good game but it doesn’t go on forever.
- Comment on Dragon’s Dogma 2 modders are finding ways around the otherwise acclaimed RPG's controversial microtransactions 1 month ago:
So someone who paid money for stuff got very poor value for their money? Why even have it at all?
- Comment on Will Smith Zombie Game No One Has Heard Of Bombs 1 month ago:
Also never heard of this game before.
The top user review on steam made it sound like awful pay to win gacha garbage though, so I’ll just move on.
- Comment on Larian Started Work on Baldur's Gate 3 DLC, Then Canceled It: "The Studio Was Elated" 1 month ago:
I don’t like the Christmas tree effect either, where your character is less important than your stack of magic doodads and buffs.
The pathfinder crpgs are 1e. I’m not sure how much changed in 2e, but I’m told it’s much better.
Myself, I’m playing Fate now.
- Comment on Larian Started Work on Baldur's Gate 3 DLC, Then Canceled It: "The Studio Was Elated" 1 month ago:
D&D 5e is kind of bad system. It’s “good” in that it’s hard to make a bad character, and it’s popular, but that’s most of what it has going for it. It’s missing a lot of rules you’d want for a general purpose RPG. Centering it on rests only works in rather specific kinds of games. The magic system is very bespoke and thus clunky. The dice math if 1d20+stuff gives you a flat probability, which is often unsatisfying.
Pathfinder 2e is widely considered better than 5e in every way, unless you actually specifically want the simple+shallowness of 5e. Which is a fine thing to want, but that is a pretty big trade off. If you were just playing with friends, you’d probably be better off with Fate or maybe a PbtA game if you want simple narrative stuff, or Gloomhaven if you just want a board game.
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 1 month ago:
Untitled Story was by the person who made Celeste. It’s old and looks like it was made in mspaint, but it was such a good metroidvania.
- Comment on CFCs 1 month ago:
Except for leap seconds. Time is the worst to work with :(
- Comment on Asking a girl out for comic book store date? 2 months ago:
Your reply is not fully applicable because the context here is he already wants to date this woman.
You can and should have friends that aren’t your own gender. This post specifically isn’t about that. The guy wants to date her. Hanging out and pretending otherwise can quickly tip over into something unfortunate. You can find out awkwardly late that they already are seeing someone, they don’t date men, they have incompatible relationship goals, or whatever, and make less good decisions because you’re acting with incomplete information.
Many of my friends have been women. Many of them I didn’t especially want to date or fuck.
I had many years in my youth of awkwardly hanging around women hoping something would align.
Turns out “Do you want to go on a date? There’s a bar by me that has arcade machines” and “do you want to make out?” are a potent combination.
- Comment on Asking a girl out for comic book store date? 2 months ago:
As I said in a reply to someone else, I highly recommend you are clear in your intentions. If she thinks it’s just a hangout, lots of things can get wrong. She might get mad when you bring up date stuff. She might invite other friends.
Don’t take your cues from romcoms.
Also, how old are you, approximately? Is this urban, suburban?
Have some ideas for what to do next if she accepts your date, because you don’t want to be bored in the shop after an hour and fizzle. Know some public places nearby for food or drinks.
- Comment on Asking a girl out for comic book store date? 2 months ago:
Counter argument: unclear communication is a road to sorrow and anger. Be clear with your intentions. You may suffer some losses up front, but you won’t waste your time with someone who’s not interested in what you’re interested in.
Also, if someone isn’t excited to go out with you, you can do better.
If the other person thinks it’s just a friendly hang and you abruptly context switch into a sexual/romantic thing, there’s good odds she’ll be mad, and rightfully so. She may read it as you weren’t actually interested in her or the activity, but were being deceitful to try to get in her pants.
Be honest. Be prepared for rejection. Don’t mislead people.
- Comment on Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you? 2 months ago:
Also a difference between “always tells the truth” and “always says all of what’s on their mind”.
Like if someone asks if they look good in an outfit , there’s a very large range of truthful replies. Some are more hurtful than others.
- Comment on the fuckgraph 3 months ago:
Not long ago I saw a woman’s profile on tinder in NYC that said “No bi men”. I guess it’s good that she put her phobia right out front like that.
- Comment on What is wage theft exactly? 4 months ago:
It’s not really a political thing
Labor is extremely political.
Labor laws in the US are extremely weak. We don’t have many laws protecting us. We don’t have many unions. All of that has political causes.
Wage theft is not enforced the same way regular theft is. If you walked out of the store with $100 of stuff “you forgot” was in your pocket, you’d plausibly be cuffed and in jail. If your manager steals $100 because “he forgot” to submit the timesheet correctly, what’s going to happen? Probably nothing.
This has been the world for so long it feels normal and intuitive. Like, of course the cops will come and stop a theft! That’s like what they’re there for. But why don’t the cops come and stop “white collar” crime? Why don’t we have anything like that? Political reasons.
And even if you did report that they stole from you, a lot of that burden is on you… Do you know how to find a lawyer and file a law suit? Are you going to just be fired if they find out?
Personally, if I was on a jury for someone who beat the living shit out of their manager for stealing wages, I would nullify.
- Comment on People who park in the handicapped ramp boil my blood. 4 months ago:
There are certain behaviors I feel like should mean the perpetrator forfeits the protection of law. Parking in bike lanes is also one.
If I was on a jury where they were prosecuting someone for smashing up a car parked in the bike lane or handicap spot, I’d probably find not guilty.